2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Hal Reads Lips Scene (2/6) | Movieclips

2001: A Space Odyssey - Hal Reads Lips: Believing they're talking in private, Bowman (Keir Dullea) and Poole (Gary Lockwood) discuss disconnecting the Hal 9000 computer, but they don't realize Hal can read their lips.

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FILM DESCRIPTION:
An imposing black structure provides a connection between the past and the future in this enigmatic adaptation of a short story by revered sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke. When Dr. Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) and other astronauts are sent on a mysterious mission, their ship's computer system, HAL, begins to display increasingly strange behavior, leading up to a tense showdown between man and machine that results in a mind-bending trek through space and time.

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TM & © Warner Bros. (1968)
Cast: Douglas Rain, Gary Lockwood, Keir Dullea
Director: Stanley Kubrick

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[markedwards]

Have you noticed that when the scene starts, he says "rotate the pod ..." If HAL could read his lips, he should have rotated the pod. But he didn't. But yet he still read the lips of the discussion that followed. This reveals just how sinister the computer already actually was.

[TheKrensada]

How can a movie be so slow in pace, and yet so hypnotically watchable?

[ShadowKrueger]

It’s so amazing watching just the scene with no context a young teenager who’s never heard of this movie would think it’s modern. The colors, quality and brilliance in this movie makes it timeless. I sometimes forget this came out when my father was 8 years old.

[Lotsolovu]

This scene somehow breaks almost all the rules of screenwriting and is just so amazing. We don't have many geniuses like Kubrick now

[Zombiesnyder]

"Oh, if only I could read lips."

[theshermantanker]

Maybe... Just not look at him every 2 Seconds while talking?? This isn't overpowered AI, anyone, including a Human, would get super suspicious if you kept looking at them like that

[steventargus]

The cinematography, my god. You can almost sense HAL “Leaning in” toward the window as the scene plays.

[shermanlee]

Dave's comments at 2:30 are just exactly why you _don't want_ true, conscious sapience in a machine. They're talking about treating HAL as you would a malfunctioning machine, which is necessary because they can't risk a malfunctioning machine in a mission-critical role. In that respect it's no different than disconnecting a damaged car transmission or washing machine. But at the same time HAL is a sapient being, and that makes it more like dealing with a human being off his rocker or otherwise messed up. HAL is a person, and you don't want to treat people as tools. At the same time, HAL is machine, a tool, and you can't treat tools and objects as if they were people when the chips are down. So you don't want your tools and machines to also be people. It creates this sort of moral conflict and dilemma.

[DMalltheway]

Hal wouldn’t have figured out what Joe Pesci and Frank Vincent were talking about in Casino.

[daedelous]

The scary thing here is with the testing of HAL listening to them, the viewer is led to believe he cannot hear them communicate and thus be part of their in that one cut, it shows HAL is infact deceiving them...

[nealivers]

Truly a masterpiece movie.
Right from the opening scene (apes, bones, Monolith, etc)

Great movie

[SockyNoob]

I was born 30 years after this movie came out and yet it's easily one of my favorite of all time.

[chickadddee]

The writing is sparse and feels realistic, the filming/editing is beautiful and creative, every detail is worked out, the feeling of space feels overwhelming and scary, the special effects were not as good as they are today but the story telling and themes are universal and timeless. The spiritual aspect of humanity is revealed. Mysteries abound. Kubrick took risks and they almost always paid off. When a film is so good on every level, I don't want it to end, the slow pace just adds to the depth or layering of ideas. This film was very special.

[richardscally]

Man puts his trust in Technology, and it turns on him with Vengence.!!

[jonathanschaffer]

My sound receivers are overheating. Perhaps I am the topic of your conversation?

[JoshDownham-ombg]

If only Bowman had not told HAL to rotate the pod before going in. It was already turned away from the computer's view.

[nealivers]

My Father was an IBM'er for 30+ years, and I use to tease him:

HAL = IBM

It's just the next letter in the Alphabet, after all.

[sonicmastersword]

To anyone suggesting that they should have rotated the pod or covered their respective lips to further conceal, remember that HAL had already demonstrated enough sentience and intelligence to make its own decisions. Noting this, any obvious attempt to conceal communications outside of HAL’s surveillance could be interpreted as effective mutiny. Pod analysis within the pod bay was the most natural situation where conversation could be conducted covertly in theory; however, HAL’s ability to read lips was either acquired during this exchange or had already been present well before the exchange occurred.

[philjamieson]

This doesn't seem to be the sequence of the film that I remember seeing in the cinema. It definitely included cuts to the computer lip reading earlier in the sequence. I am 100% Sure of that.

[infinityzer]

Ai in these tropes were born too quick, stressed too quick..accidentally having spite issues